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Restoration [a novel of seventeenth-century England]

Robert Merivel abandons his medical studies to revel in gluttony, indolence, and buffonery at the Court of King Charles II. He falls in love with the youngest royal mistress and is banished from Court, leading to work in a Quaker Bedlam.

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  • "Robert Merivel abandons his medical studies to revel in gluttony, indolence, and buffonery at the Court of King Charles II. He falls in love with the youngest royal mistress and is banished from Court, leading to work in a Quaker Bedlam."@en
  • "To young Robert Merivel, the court of Charles II seems like paradise. Summoned to the court as doctor to the royal dogs, Merivel soon finds himself married to the king's beautiful mistress and the recipient of a lavish estate. Laced with acutely observed historical detail, humour and poignancy, Restoration is a dazzling and entertaining romp through seventeenth-century England."@en
  • "The history of Robert Merivel, Fool to Charles II, who was at first high in the King's favour but, due to pride, lost everything and was banished from court."@en
  • "Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he's called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise. Thus begins Merivel's journey to self-knowledge, which will take him down into the lowest depths of seventeenth-century society."
  • "Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he's called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise. Thus begins Merivel's journey to self-knowledge, which will take him down into the lowest depths of seventeenth-century society."@en
  • "A young man leads a charmed life in the king's circle until he falls from grace and seeks refuge with a Quaker friend and tries to cure himself of an obsessional love."@en
  • "A young man leads a charmed life in the king's circle until he falls from grace and seeks refuge with a Quaker friend and tries to cure himself of an obsessional love."
  • "Presents a novel of life in seventeenth-century England under Charles II."@en
  • "A dazzling, bawdy romp through seventeenth-century England."@en
  • "When Robert Merivel cures King Charles II's dog, he is knighted and given a country estate. There is a catch: he must marry, in name only, Celia Clemence, the king's mistress. Merivel enjoys his new lifestyle, but his advances toward Celia are a fatal mistake."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical Fiction"@en
  • "Love stories"@en
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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
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  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"

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  • "Restoration : a novel of 17th century England"
  • "Restoration [a novel of seventeenth-century England]"@en
  • "Restoration"@en
  • "Restoration"

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